Resources

The focus of JSTOR XI will be on the humanities, with emphasis on language and literature, history, art and architecture, classical studies, and music. Other subjects covered will include religion, philosophy, archaeology, performing arts and film studies, American studies, Asian studies, Jewish studies, and African American studies.

Selected titles in JSTOR XI include:

American Scholar
Black Scholar

Christian Education / The Christian Scholar
Historical Society of Southern California, Los Angeles
Marvels & Tales
Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology

JSTOR Arts and Sciences XI will contain at least 125 titles by the end of 2014, with page-image display, searchable full text, and PDF output for every page of every issue from a journal's start up to the most recent 3 to 5 years. Ten titles will show runs of more than 100 years, with the earliest issues dating from 1783.

Titles can be accessed through JSTOR: www.jstor.org.

An important set of engineering ebooks from publisher McGraw-Hill, formerly available at the McGraw-Hill AccessEngineering(TM) site, is now available from the CDL-Hosted Licensed Content platform.

This set of ebooks includes recent editions of handbooks and reference sources such as Marks Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook, Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, and more than 250 other titles. The ebooks cover various subject fields in engineering: Bioengineering, Chemical, Civil & Construction, Communications, Electrical & Optical, Energy, Environmental & Sustainable, Industrial, Materials Science & Nanotech, Mechanical, and Software.

The collection can be accessed at http://uclibs.org/PID/146414.

CDL hosting of the McGraw Hill ebooks was implemented at the request of UC campuses following a change in the vendor’s pricing and service model, which no longer provided for perpetual access rights to licensed material. Perpetual ownership is a core licensing principle for the UC Libraries, ensuring that our investments in licensed collections will endure long into the future.

The CDL-Hosted Licensed Content platform is based on CDL’s Merritt repository for preservation and CDL’s eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) for access. Implementation of this new service involved broad collaboration across CDL, including staff from CDL’s UC3, Publishing and Access, Licensing, and Discovery and Delivery programs, as well as close collaboration with the licensing campuses.

For more information on the collection or the CDL-Hosted Licensed Content platform, please contact us at library@ucmerced.edu or 209.228.4444.

This summer (2012), PsycINFO and many other databases are changing from their current platforms to the ProQuest platform.

This means that these databases will look a little different – but you will still be able to use them and access their resources.

Affected databases will include PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, and ERIC, in addition to many others.

From now until sometime in August, there will be an overlap period when both versions of the databases will be available. This will allow you to gain familiarity and experience with the new platform, and will give you an opportunity to explore its various features.

More information about the new platform is available on the ProQuest web site.

We often hear stories of students who don't buy their textbooks because they feel they can't afford them. While we understand the hard economic realities of being a college student, we also know that students ultimately hurt themselves when they don't have easy access to reading materials for their classes. It's true, textbooks are expensive, but that may change in the near future. In fact, FREE TEXTBOOKS are already being used on many college campuses.

You're probably asking yourself how a textbook could be free. In today's online environment, some enterprising new publishers are providing free access to the electronic version of a textbook, and then offering a print version at an affordable price. Flatworld Knowledge claims to be the first and largest publisher of free and open textbooks. Another nonprofit organization called OpenStax College is also commited to reducing costs for students by developing free textbooks.

We applaud these innovative new textbook publishing models as well as other Open Access initiatives around the country and the world.